Director, Client Management

Role Summary

As the Director of Client Management, you will lead a high-performing team of Strategic Account Managers tasked with managing and growing our growth-accounts portfolio. You will be a key driver of revenue expansion, contract renewals, executive-alignment, and client satisfaction (NPS) across our enterprise clients. You bring strategic thinking, commercial acumen in SaaS/account leadership, and a track record of building teams and relationships that scale.

** This is a hybrid role which requires at least 3 days a week onsite in our (brand new!) Framingham, MA office** 

**Applicants must have valid permanent work authorization in the U.S. (e.g., U.S. citizen, permanent resident). We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

What You’ll Own & Deliver

• Lead, coach and develop the Strategic Account Management team—cultivating a culture grounded in growth, retention, client success and executive engagement.

• Define and execute professional development plans and succession strategies to ensure bench strength and talent growth.

• Own the growth strategy for each account: upsell, cross-sell, renewal initiatives and a clear, actionable growth roadmap per client.

• Build and deepen relationships at C-suite and senior stakeholder levels across client organizations, becoming a trusted advisor.

• Drive revenue growth through strategic account planning, execution, forecasting and reporting (including monitoring renewal pipelines and at-risk accounts).

• Lead contract negotiations and renewals with strategic customers in close partnership with Sales, Legal and Commercial teams.

• Partner with Product, Marketing and Customer Success to align on client needs, strategic initiatives and innovation.

• Serve as the client voice within Workhuman—feeding insights into product development, service delivery, and process enhancement.

• Establish, refine and standardize best-in-class processes for account management reporting, forecasting and operations.

• Ensure consistent delivery of value and measurable outcomes for clients; champion continuous improvement and innovation across the team.

Who You Are & Required Qualifications

• An experienced leader and strategist working with Fortune 1000 companies who has a track record of navigating complex organizational structures and developing senior stakeholder relationships, ideally within the SaaS, HR technology or employee engagement solutions.

• Minimum 10+ years’ experience in enterprise client management, account strategy or sales leadership.

• Demonstrated track record managing multi-million-dollar contracts, driving revenue growth, and delivering on retention and expansion metrics.

• Proven leadership capability: hiring, developing, coaching teams and driving a performance culture.

• Exceptional communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills.

• Strategic thinker with a data-driven approach to decision-making and forecasting.

• Comfortable using tools like Salesforce, Microsoft Office Suite (and familiarity with Co-Pilot or equivalent AI-enabled tools preferred).

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred

The base salary range for this position is $132,000–$198,000. Offered base compensation within this range will be determined based on the candidate’s qualifications, experience, geographic location, and other factors relevant to the scope and responsibilities of this role.

This role is also eligible for bonus or other variable compensation based on job performance and our standard benefits package, which supports employee well-being and work-life balance.

Thank you for considering joining our team. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible application process for all candidates. If you encounter any difficulties or have specific accessibility requirements while applying for this position, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at g[email protected] for assistance. We are committed to ensuring equal access to opportunities for all individuals. 

At  Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, and innovative with a growth mindset. We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.  

Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:

• We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large sized workplace category. We were also recognised as a Best Workplace for Women and a Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

• In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium sized workplace category.

•  We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as a Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work and U.S. Best Places to Work.

• There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.

• Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based on solely on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.